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After very big noise from Linux community, Adobe recently issued alpha version of its 64-bit flash player for  Linux architecture. Surprisingly even if it’s alpha it works perfectly.

To install it you will have to remove any existing flash player on your system. Running two flash players will only bring bad things to your browser. You can download Adobe’s 64-bit flash player from here, and you can read about installation instructions in rest of this post.

Simple step by step instructions:

Open your terminal and type:

cd ~/

wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.32.18.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz

untar it with:

tar zxvf libflashplayer*.tar.gz

make a plugins directory in your .mozilla folder:

mkdir ~/.mozilla/plugins

and copy the newly obtained flash plugin to mozilla plugins folder

cp libflashplayer.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/

Restart your Firefox browser and voila, now you have your alpha 64-bit Adobe flash player for Firefox. The Player should work with any Web browser, but currently its default setup is for Firefox.

You can verify the plugin installation by typing either about:plugins or by visiting your favorite flash powered site.

Edit@Mar 30,2009: Added new versions.

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